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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Father of Shooting Victim Won't Quit

We posted the amazing angry video of Richard Martinez, father of Isla Vista shooting victim Chris, a few days ago, and updated his continuing statements since as he's asked everyone to join the fight vs. guns.  One who won't:  Joe the Plumber today declared that dead kids didn't trump his 2nd Amendment rights.  Tonight there's a new Wash Post piece, that includes this:
He’s asking members of Congress to stop calling him to offer condolences but nothing more for the death of his only child, Christopher Michaels-Martinez, who was killed in the rampage Friday in Santa Barbara, Calif.

“I don’t care about your sympathy. I don’t give a s--- that you feel sorry for me,” Richard Martinez said during an extensive interview, his face flushed as tears rolled down his face. “Get to work and do something. I’ll tell the president the same thing if he calls me. Getting a call from a politician doesn’t impress me.”

Saying “we are all to blame” for the death of his 20-year-old son, Martinez urged the public to join him in demanding “immediate action” from members of Congress and President Obama to curb gun violence by passing stricter gun-control laws.
And this:
Martinez vowed that he’s not going away. He said his training as a lawyer explains, in part, why he has not retreated from public view as many parents do after such a tragedy.

“We are tough people,” Martinez said of himself and Christopher’s mother, Caryn Johnson Michaels, a deputy district attorney in San Luis Obispo. (The couple separated when Christopher was young.) “Caryn was in charge of the sex crime unit. We fight.”
 Video here.

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